Gezicht op Dresden aan de Elbe - Drawing. Public domain image.

Kasparus Karsen (1810 - 1896). A Dutch painter. He studied at the academy in Amsterdam from 1825 to 1827 and was a pupil of his uncle Peter George Westenberg. From 1830 to 1834 he worked as a painter-decorator. In 1836 he made his first trip along the Rhine and the Danube, and in 1837 he painted views of several German towns. And from then on he was constantly creating landscape paintings - with views of the Rhine, the Danube. He lived and worked in Haarlem between 1824 and 1844, and then in Amsterdam. During his lifetime, Karsen was less well known than Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, or Cornelis Springer, but his works later became very popular.